The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-09-14
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

john +. COlDuTH ulu LoI Gct Single fOLC
in Waianae.
The tabu on the liquor saloons was raised
yesterday morning.
Several more men-of-war are supposed
en- voyage for this port.
Let us have another baseball match on
Saturday by all means.
Considerable rain fell yesterday, es-
peciaIIy in Nuuanu Valley.
Tie Government schools open tomorrow
morning for a new term.
At Koolaupoko Frank Brown polled 200
votes and his opponent, Kaoliko, "a.
a new term began at ST. Louis College
yesterday with large attendance of
pupils.
Tickets for the grand concert at the Y.
NJ c. a. Hail Thursday evening are for
sale at the bookstores.
The attendance of scholars at the Puma
hou Preparatory School yesterday was
very good for the first day of a new term.
There will be the usual service at st. An
drew's Cathedral this evening at 730
O'Clock, conducted by the Rev. Alexander
Macintosh
While the bark Calbarien was on the
trip from San Francisco, the Second Mate,
a Swede named C. G. jacobson, was lost
overheard.
Mr. j. F. Morgan will hold a sale of dam
aged goods, ex st. Lucie, at 10 O'Clock to-
| day, and at the same hour will offer the
household effects of DIR. Brodle.
The threat of the Mormons to leave
Utah and go to Canada sounds so enticing,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch" that the
| United States ought to offer, as premium,
| to send the boodlers along with them, if
| they will only do it. "
Mr.. Pierre Jones of this city has been
appointed teacher of French and drawing
at Oahu College, vice Mr.. c. NJ. Severance,
resigned. The latter gentleman has gone
back to the Coast by way of Hilo, after
having visited the Volcano.
Mr.. ]. A. Gonsalves, photographer, who
recently returned from the Volcano, has
| some views of the crater taken from diff
ferent standpoint to any we have previous
| Iy seen. They are artistic, and are ex-
| ecuted with remarkable clearness.
Mr. G. E. G. Ellis, who arrived yesterday
| by the schooner Olive from Bakers Island,
| last visited Honolulu in company with Mr..
| Arundel on board the Explorer, the steam
| er which was afterwards transformed into
our embryo navy. Mr.. Ellis present visit
| is understood to be on business connected
| with the guano company of which he is
! the manager.
A London dispatch under date of
| August 18th states that in the House of
| Commons the previous afternoon Sir j.
| Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary for
| the Foreign Office, said the Government
| had no information in reference to the
rumor that the new Hawaiian Ministry
had refused to recognize as valid the 81
| 600 900 loan contracted by the late Pre-
mier.
The story of the disordered condition of
Ruskin's mind explains many of the enig-
NAUTICAL letters that have puzzled his adj
mirers. The man has always been
! crotchety, but of late he has gone beyond
| all bounds, and on more than one occasion
his utterances have provoked the suspicion
that he was in the borderland of insanity.
| AS an art critic and as a writer OF good
English Ruskin has never been surpassed ;
but as a man he appears to be greatly de-
ficient in self-contro, and manliness.-[S.
F. Chronicle.
Of all the bank defauIters whose mis-
deeds have filled the newspapers during
the last few years, says the s. F. "Chroni-
Gle" the most consummate fool seems to
be the New York bank teller Scott. If his
story be true, he gave nine-tenths OF his
stealings to q mutual friend, who told him
it would be dangerous to travel around the
country with so much stolen money in his
possession. Then he left the better part OF
what remained to him with his mistress.
| When the time came for these worthless
to send him coin, they refused to dis
| gorge.